Figure in brackets [ ] denotes prevalence
category, i.e. proportion of the population undernourished in 1996-98.

Category

a: GNP estimated using the World Bank Atlas method, at constant 1995 prices.

b: GNP per capita is GNP divided by mid year population

c: Average annual rate of growth of GNP per capita is calculated for constant prices
GNP per capita in national currency units.

d: GNP measured at purchasing power parity (PPP) is GNP converted into international
dollars by the PPP exchange rate. One international dollar has the same purchasing power
over domestic GNP that the U.S. dollar has over U.S. GNP.

e: Prevalence of child malnutrition is the percentage of children under 5 whose weight
for age is less than minus 2 standard deviations from the mean of the reference population
which is based on children from the US, assumed to be well nourished.

f: Under five mortality is the probability that a child born in the indicated year will
die before reaching the age of 5.

SOURCES

All the figures are
derived from the World Development Report 2000/2001 published by the World Bank, 2000.

ANNEX TABLE IV: Indicators proposed for
FIVIMS-related activities and WFS follow-up monitoring, compared with those in use for
monitoring follow-up to other Summits and international conferences1

Column One: Report of the Fourth Meeting of the IAWG-FIVIMS Subgroup on
Indicators, Assessment and Mapping, October 1999.

Column Two: Assessment of the World Food Security Situation
(CFS:99/2); Assessment of the World Food Security Situation (CFS:2000/2), The
State of Food Insecurity in the World (FAO 1999), The State of Food Insecurity in
the World (draft, FAO 2000); draft FAO-Secretariat lists for developing food access
and vulnerability indices and for monitoring Agenda 21 (FAO 2000).